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Love, Hate, Fear and Trust
Love.
Where I come from; love is like rice.
No rice. No love.
Love, like rice doesn’t exist in a vacuum
Stew. Hate. Meat. Betrayal. Beans. Denial.
Above all; jollof rice. The height of infidelity.
Love is a moving train.
Who says trains don’t halt. Know your station.
Never jump out of a moving train
And don’t be carried away by the rail
“The rice farmer won’t say he won’t plant rice because after all,
It will be mixed with beans and meat and curry and thyme”
Above all, everyone eats rice. Everyone loves.
In different condiments. In different bowls. In different moulds
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Hate.
I hate Sundays. My days of inertia
My Christian brethren love Sundays. They worship it. In it!
When we hate, we hate that that is loved by another.
It could be that we hate our most cherished possessions-
Like Sunday ushers in the week, and week- month
Why hate when you can walk away.
Hate, like killing a lizard, is a waste of feelings.
When we hate we care. And care is the mother of feelings.
So I sleep, read, think, until Sunday walks away.
And the lizard disappears with the darkness.
Fear.
It is easy to not fear God- the most innocuous
But man can hurt us now and hard
Man can steal your job and wife
Man can, kill your flock and cease your milk
Man can, blast you before your lord- profanity in the house of God
Is man not to be feared?
“I can sin and await my judgment in heaven. But I cannot
Confront a man with Kalashnikov head on”
Ittaqullah; but we don’t fear HIM
Is man then not to be feared?
Trust.
Because man is fallible. Weak. Loves. Lusts.
Not because no one is worthy of my trust.
I trust no one.
issiakson’s timeline
- September 2022
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08 ThuAnniversary
5 years of membership
- September 2018
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08 SatAnniversary
One year of membership
- September 2017
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13 WedReceived a critique
on Love, Hate, Fear and Trust from @Chiori
"I understand what rice mean in Nigeria the way you portrays it in your poem as a replica of love, i also understand hate from Sundays from your perspective, fear for man rather than God, and trust because man is not emo…" -
12 TueReceived a critique
on Love, Hate, Fear and Trust from @Eumolpus
"And I think all poets should please try to include such things in the notes of a poem; things not common knowledge or personal references that nobody could possibly know. I have never seen a Nigerian restaurant but woul…" -
12 TueReceived a critique
on Love, Hate, Fear and Trust from @lovedly
"as we all are not used to your kinda life you should have specified JOLLOf what! take care u r a new comer here twill take time to know neo read more first and know how we all flow then only jollof at us throw you may l…" -
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08 FriJoined Neopoet
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About Me
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a struggling young writer. a lawyer in the making.
Location: Kano, Nigeria
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Rumi
Emily Dickinson
Bronte
John Ashbery
Dante
Andrew Marvel
Edgar Allan Poe
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